You have to give credit where credit is due.
The Obama-Biden Plan
"Barack Obama and Joe Biden will renew America's security and standing in the world through a new era of American leadership."
http://change.gov/agenda/foreign_policy_...Respecting our future in space technology, Obama did do something about America's "standing" in the world.
On the following website:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1112/04c...it is being reported that this year, 2011, for the first time, the Chinese Communists will launch more spacecrafts into orbit than the United States.
China joined the "space faring" community in 1970.
At first glance, one could wonder how this could happen.
First, Loral Space & Communications, LTD, sold sensitive U.S. space technology to the Chicoms back in the 1990's.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pol...President Clinton (another democrat and liberal) used his executive power to soften restrictions to allow the transfer of the sensitive information to the Chicoms......and guess who was a large campaign contributor to President Clinton's reelection?
Here is a quote:
"The allegations involving the aerospace companies have been potentially damaging to the Clinton administration, which made it easier for U.S. firms to export sensitive technology. The sensitivity of the charges was heightened for the White House because the chairman of Loral, Bernard Schwartz, has been a major donor to Democrats."
Obama and our space program have an interesting relationship too.
Obama has STOPPED all planetary exploration. Obama has shut down NASA's entire planetary exploration program.
Other than the current space ships on route to Pluto, Jupiter and Mars, there are "no further missions to anywhere planned."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011...The first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, called Obama's shutdown of the Constellation Program as "devastating" to America's space effort.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36476183/ns/...Give credit where credit is due. Obama has definitely shut down our space program and done something dramatic to America's "standing" in the world.
Maybe that is what Obama meant when he stated NASA's "foremost" mission was to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/...Obama needs 4 more years, then we can have Biden for 8 years and then Billiary for 8 years.